The Atlantic: The Best Books We Read in 2015

���Andrea Wulf���s 2015 book���part biography, part vicarious travelogue, part history-of-ideas���celebrates the man behind the memorials: the explorer and author and scientist and Romantic Alexander von Humboldt, born in Berlin in 1769 ��� The Invention of Nature argues, lyrically and compellingly, that the man who gave us ���the concept of nature as we know it��� deserves not merely to be remembered, but to be celebrated once again.���

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